Stephen Beer Articles

We need a government with a credible foreign and defence policy. The atrocities being carried out in Iraq by Islamic State, the conflict and rising tensions in Ukraine and the ongoing conflict in Gaza, are just the latest examples to expose the void in government...

The United Kingdom economic recovery is underway. The first official estimate for the second quarter of this year shows gross domestic product rising by 0.8 per cent. That means that the economy is now larger than just before the financial crisis. Growth is occurring...

Cuts must not drive defence policy —We need a proper conversation in the Labour party about what we think about defence. Recent events in Ukraine, Syria and Iraq are demonstrating that potential threats to our national security and to world peace still exist and are...

From the start, there was something different about the last recession. The financial crisis hit all sectors of the economy at the same time and demand fell across the economy. People were angry yet the backlash was relatively muted. The Occupy demonstrations for a...